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A. P. HOLMAN. Shoe.

Patented Nov. 9,1880

N. PETERS. PHOTOLITHOGRAPHEH. WASHINGTON D O.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Glance.

ALBERT P. HOLMAN, OF PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO' ROOKINGHAM SHOE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SHOE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 234,187, dated November 9, 1880,

Application filed September 25, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT P. HOLMAN, of Portsmouth, of the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoes; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Which- Figure 1 is a top View, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a rear View, of a shoe containing my invention. Fig. 4. is a top View or pattern of the vamp, quarters, and strengtheningtongues, showing how they are formed in one piece of leather or material. Fig. 5 is a view of one of the side pieces. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section taken through the ankle part of the shoe, and showing the arrangement of the lining, the side pieces, and the strengtheningtongues.

One important characteristic of myim proved shoe is that the vamp a, quarters b b, and the strengthening tongues c c are in one piece of material and formed thereof in manner as shown in Fig. 4, the strengthening-tongues being subsequently raised above or turned up from the quarters and lapped on the sidepieces, d d, which extend between the said tongues and the lining 6. Each tongue is seamed to its side piece and the lining thereof by stitching at the edges of the tongue, as shown at ff. The side pieces project above the quarters, and like them are seamed together, the seam of the side pieces being shown at g in Fig. 3, and that of the quarters at h in the said figure. Each of the quarters laps on one of the (No model.)

arranged in side pieces and lining without 45 any strengthening'tongues arranged and combined therewith and the vamp and quarters, in manner as explained.

1n the United States Patent entitled Reissue N o. 7 ,912 a shoe is represented having the instep and leg part of its upper consisting of a seamless back, having inserted within it a top quarter, the remaining part of the upper, or that below the instep, being a separate and distinct piece of material, all of which differs from an upper constructed in accordance with my invention, such upper being composed of two pieces only and seamed at the back of the heel. Therefore I claim The upper composed of the vamp, quarters, and strengthening-tongues formed in one piece of material, as set forth, in combination with the side pieces arranged and connected therewith and with the lining, all being substantially as described and represented.

ALBERT P. HOLMAN.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR H. LOGKE, WM. H. RoLLINs. 

